A report from CBS this week revealed the working conditions of tens of thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who work in mines to extract the cobalt needed for lithium batteries.

A recent Bloomberg article has brought to light a harsh reality, the demand for electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing child labor rates in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): The appetite for electric cars is driving a boom in small-scale cobalt production in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where some mines have been found to […]

A new coalition of groups in Arizona is seeking to force utilities in the state to generate more power from renewable energy beyond the 15 percent the state currently requires, according to a new report this week.

Legislative leaders in both the Oregon House of Representatives and Oregon Senate cast doubt on whether a proposed carbon tax bill could pass in either legislative body this year, according to the Portland Tribune.

A CBS Los Angeles investigation has uncovered that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) are reluctant to use the electric vehicles the department leases as part of a splashy effort to supposedly “go green”:

Environmentalists in Texas and throughout the country have recently been referring to themselves as “water protectors” and adopting the motto “water is life,” yet one group may have contaminated the very water they claim to protect.

Several complaints have been filed against the Two Rivers Camp for contaminating drinking water in West Texas after the group shared photos of them bathing in a water tank that provides drinking water to local communities in West Texas.

This is not the first controversy for the Two Rivers Camp. The group has claimed that their arrests make them braver than soldiers and one if its leaders was revealed to be a fugitive rapist and registered sex offender. Fortunately for West Texans, these protesters have plans to relocate to Kansas. Residents of the Sunflower State can only hope that these “water protectors” choose to bathe in showers and not in their drinking water.